Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Leonardo's Swans - Abridged

By: Karen Essex

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LEONARDO'S SWANS is the story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for the larger prize, to be immortalized in oil by his court painter and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Sexy, inspiring, and... Read more

Vanity Fair: August 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Arztroman - Abridged

By: Kristof Magnusson

Narrated by: Christiane Paul

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ANITA CORNELIUS ist Notärztin an einem großen Berliner Krankenhaus. Adrian, ihr Ex-Mann, ist Arzt am selben Krankenhaus. Die beiden haben sich vor kurzem in bestem Einvernehmen getrennt, und der gemeinsame Sohn ist zum Vater und dessen neuer Freundin Heidi gezogen. Alles könnte in bester Ordnung sein, ist es aber nicht. Auf ihren Einsätzen ist... Read more

The Scarlet Letter - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Elizabeth McGovern

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real... Read more

The King Must Die - Abridged

By: Mary Renault

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in ancient Greece, a powerful novel about Theseus by Mary Renault.This is the story of the young Theseus: Prince of Troizen, King of Eleusis and Athens, and slayer of the Minotaur. Acclaimed novelist Mary Renault weaves myth, legend, history, and fiction into the story of a young hero's search for his destiny and the countless challenges he... Read more

Appel à l'amour - Abridged

By: Anthony De Mello

Narrated by: Gérard Poirier

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Les dix méditations originales contenues dans ce titre audio sont aussi les mémoires d'un mystique qui a osé voir la réalité. Avec les années, leur auteur est devenu homme de compassion et d'amour, et ces réflexions jalonnent le chemin difficile qu'il a dû parcourir à la fin de sa vie pour se dépouiller de tout système de croyances, de toute... Read more

Cent éléphants sur un brin d'herbe - Abridged

By: Le Dalaï Lama

Narrated by: Jean Leclerc

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sur le ton chaleureux et confidentiel qui lui est naturel même en présence de nombreux interlocuteurs, le Dalaï-lama livre le fruit de ses réflexions sur l'homme, l'environnement, sur la société, les institutions, la politique, les religions. Que propose-t-il ? "Quel est votre secret ?", lui demande-t-on partout où il est invité. "Sagesse,... Read more

Beginner's Greek - Abridged

By: James Collins

Narrated by: Jerry O'Connell

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her phone number on a page of The Magic Mountain, but in his room that night Peter finds the page... Read more

Le prophète - Abridged

By: Khalil Gibran

Narrated by: Patrice Laffont, Yann le Gac, Patrick Bouchitey...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Best-seller des années 60 traduit dans plus de 35 langues et vendu à plusieurs millions d'exemplaires. Le Prophète demeure l'un des ouvrages philosophiques parmi les plus populaires au monde. Avec Le Prophète, Khalil Gibran nous livre, dans une poésie éclatante, un message à la fois simple et profond. L'amour, le mariage, l'amitié et l'argent... Read more

Lettres à un jeune poète - Abridged

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: François Garagnon

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En 1903, un poète de vingt ans, Franz Xaver Kappus, alors étudiant à l'Académie militaire de Wiener-Neustadt, décide d'envoyer à Rainer-Maria Rilke, ses premiers essais poétiques accompagnés d'une lettre dans laquelle il lui avoue douter de sa vocation. Il ne pouvait espérer plus belle écoute et plus juste accueil à ses incertitudes. Pendant 5... Read more

Kidnapped - Abridged

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Tom Conti

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of. ‘I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.’ Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander... Read more

The Guy Not Taken - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Mary Catherine Garrison & Jordan Bridges

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A selection of unabridged stories from the bestselling author of Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to... Read more

我们时代的神经症人格 - Abridged

By: 卡伦·霍妮

Narrated by: 青木

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

内容简介：本书是卡伦·霍妮重要的心理学专著，也是她的代表作。该书多角度分析了现代人的心理和人格。她认为，每个人都生活在各种矛盾和冲突中，而主要的冲突是我们都同时具有“亲近人”“对抗人”“逃避人”的冲动。这些冲动如果无法协调好，就会让我们陷入各种各样的焦虑和神经症。这部大师级的著作，用朴实的语言、清晰的逻辑，阐述简明的哲理，能让广大读者受益匪浅，感受到精神分析导师的真正魅力。作者简介：卡伦·霍妮，医学博士、心理学家、精神病学家。生于德国布兰肯内兹。她是精神分析学说中“新弗洛伊德主义”的代表人物，是社会心理学较早的倡导者之一，也是精神分析学说发展中举足轻重的人物，她相信用社会心理学说明人格的发展比弗洛伊德的概念更适当。代表作有《我们内心的冲突》《我们时代的神经症人格》《神经症与人的成长》等。 Read more

Jazz - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.

“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison... Read more

Black Beauty - Abridged

By: Anna Sewell

Narrated by: Angela Rippon

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. A... Read more

Au nom du père, du fils et de la crème glacée - Abridged

By: Pierre Morency

Narrated by: Pierre Morency

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Après avoir secoué un certain nombre de nos croyances depuis la parution de son best-seller Demandez et vous recevrez, Pierre Morency s'attaque ici de plein fouet aux fondements des écrits religieux et à la relation des humains avec le Père. Son postulat ? Dieu est content lorsque nous sommes gros, pauvres, malades et misérables. Il ne veut pas... Read more

A Fine Balance - Abridged

By: Rohinton Mistry

Narrated by: Madhur Jaffrey

Length: 24 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more

Tod, der stolze Bruder - Abridged

By: Thomas Wolfe

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Mit allem, was nachts auf Erden geschieht, hatte ich Bekanntschaft gemacht, und schließlich auch nachts jene drei Gefährten kennengelernt, mit denen ich meines Lebens besten Teil zubrachte, – den stolzen Tod und dessen Geschwister, die strenge Einsamkeit und den großen Schlaf." So beginnt die Erzählung von Thomas Wolfe in der er nächtliche... Read more

Perles de sagesse amérindienne - Abridged

By: Claire Payment

Narrated by: Albert Millaire, Claudie Stanké & Sophie Stanké

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Durant notre vie, il nous arrive à tous de subir un outrage, un affront, de nous sentir trahis ou rejetés. Point n'est besoin de nous empresser d'avoir recours à la vengeance pour étouffer notre tristesse. La sagesse amérindienne nous invite à analyser notre chagrin, à le vivre pleinement dans le moment présent et à croire en la bonté innée de... Read more

Safari ohne Geld - Abridged

By: Richard Wunderer

Narrated by: Konrad Halver

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Reise Dr. Richard Wunderer hat Anfang der fünfziger Jahre eine Reise gemacht, die aus seinem jugendlichen Entdeckungsdrang entstanden ist. Sie wurde von ihm unter Bedingungen durchgeführt, die für uns heute undenkbar sind. Das Zusammentreffen unterschiedlichster Kulturen und Glaubensrichtungen hat ihn mehrfach in lebensgefährliche... Read more

Der Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten - Abridged

By: Walter Flex

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Walter Flex erzählt in seiner poetisch durchwobenen Prosa die Gedankenwelt eines idealistischen Kriegsfreiwilligen. Es ist das Buch einer Weltkriegsgeneration und eines falsch verstandenen Idealismus; aus dem die Bereitschaft erwuchs, für die Heimat und die Vaterlandsliebe in den Krieg zu ziehen und den Heldentod zu sterben. Der Wanderer... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Bing Crosby

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more

The Kite Runner - Abridged

By: Khaled Hosseini

Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift - Abridged

By: Franz Werfel

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zwei Jahre vor dem Einmarsch der deutschen Truppen in Österreich bringt ein Brief den Chef des Wiener Kultusministeriums Leonidas Tachezy in Bedrängnis. Seine einstige jüdische Geliebte Vera bittet ihn um Protektion für einen jungen Mann, der aus "allgemein" bekannten Gründen in Deutschland nicht mehr das Gymnasium besuchen könne. Schlagartig... Read more